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virt-handler pods only 2/3 ready and status is CrashLoopBackOff
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Container ‘virt-handler’ has the following error log:
{"component":"virt-handler","level":"fatal","msg":"Failed to create an inotify watcher","pos":"cert-manager.go:105","reason":"too many open files","timestamp":"2026-07-14T07:55:17.060525Z"} │
│ panic: Failed to create an inotify watcher
Solution
The fs.inotify.user_watches and fs.inotify.user_instances must be increased. To do so, ssh to the corresponding node and execute the following commands
sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_watches=1048576
sudo sysctl -w fs.inotify.max_user_instances=512